LKQ Smart Parts S-4 Registration of securities issued in business combination transactions

Exhibit 3.31

Delaware

The First State

I, JEFFREY W. BULLOCK, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THE ATTACHED ARE TRUE AND CORRECT COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS ON FILE OF “LKQ BEST AUTOMOTIVE CORP.” AS RECEIVED AND FILED IN THIS OFFICE.

THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED:

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, FILED THE NINETEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.D. 2001, AT 9 O`CLOCK A.M.

CERTIFICATE OF MERGER, FILED THE NINTH DAY OF JANUARY, A.D. 2002, AT 4:30 O`CLOCK P.M.

CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT, FILED THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH, A.D. 2005, AT 7:45 O`CLOCK P.M.

CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT, FILED THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH, A.D. 2016, AT 8:31 O`CLOCK A.M.

AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE AFORESAID CERTIFICATES ARE THE ONLY CERTIFICATES ON RECORD OF THE AFORESAID CORPORATION, “LKQ BEST AUTOMOTIVE CORP.”.

    /s/ Jeffrey W. Bullock
Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secretary of State

3470621 8100H    Authentication: 204909207

SR# 20224073364    Date: 11-21-22

You may verify this certificate online at corp.delaware.gov/authver.shtml

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

LKQ Best Automotive Corp.

1.    The name of the corporation is: LKQ Best Automotive Corp.

2.    The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

3.    The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is:

To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire. invest in, own, mortgage, pledge, sell, assign and transfer or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every class and description.

To acquire. and pay for in cash, stock or bonds of this corporation or otherwise, the good will, rights, assets and property, and to undertake or assume the whole or any part of the obligations or liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation.

To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant licenses in respect of, mortgage or otherwise dispose of letters patent of the United States or any foreign country, patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions, Improvements and processes, copyrights, trademarks and trade names, relating to or useful in connection with any business of this corporation.

To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to receive, hold own, guarantee, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or deal in and with any of the shares of the capital stock, or any voting trust certificates in respect of the shares of capital stock, scrip, warrants, rights, bonds, debentures, notes, trust receipts, and other securities, obligations, choses in action and evidences of indebtedness or interest issued or created by any corporations, joint stock companies, syndicates, associations, firms, trusts or persons, public or private, or by the government of the United State of America, or by any foreign government, or by any state, territory, province, municipality or other political subdivision or by any governmental agency, and as owner thereof to possess and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to execute consents and vote thereon, and to do any and all acts and things necessary or advisable for the preservation, protection, improvement and enhancement in value thereof.

To borrow or raise money for any of the purposes of the corporation and, from time to time without limit as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and

other negotiable or non-negotiable instruments and evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of any thereof and of the interest thereon by mortgage upon or pledge, conveyance or assignment in trust of the whale or any part of the property of the corporation, whether at the time owned or thereafter acquired, and to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of such bonds or other obligations of the corporation for its corporate purposes.

To purchase, receive, take by grant, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use and otherwise deal in and with real or personal property, or any interest therein, wherever situated, and to sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or mortgage or pledge, all or any of the corporation’s property and assets, or any interest therein, wherever situated.

In general, to possess and exercise all the powers and privileges granted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware or by any other law of Delaware or by this Certificate of Incorporation together with any powers incidental thereto, so far as such powers and privileges are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business or purposes of the corporation.

The business and purposes specified in the foregoing clauses shall, except where otherwise expressed, be in nowise limited or restricted by reference to, or inference from, the terms of any other clause in this Certificate of Incorporation, but the business and purposes specified in each of the foregoing clauses of this article shall be regarded as independent business and purposes.

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4.    The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is one thousand (1,000) and the par value of each of such shares is .01. Dollars ($0.01) amounting in the aggregate to ten dollars ($10.00).

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5.    The name and mailing address of each incorporator is as follow:

NAMEMAILING ADDRESS

Daniel J. Hemmer    120 N. LaSalle St., #3300

    Chicago, Illinois 60602

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6.    The corporation is to have perpetual existence.

7.    In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized:

To make, alter or repeal the by-laws of the corporation.

To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real and personal property of the corporation.

To set apart out of any of the funds of the corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and to abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

To designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. The by-taws may provide that in the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the board of directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the board of directors, or in the by-laws of the corporation, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to the following matters: (i) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by the Delaware General

Corporation Law to be submitted to stockholders for approval or (ii) adopting, amending or repealing any bylaw of the corporation.

When and as authorized by the stockholders in accordance with law, to sell, lease or exchange all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation, including its good will and its corporate franchises, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration, which may consist in whole or in part of money or property including shares of stock in, and/or other securities of, any other corporation or corporations, as its board of directors shall deem expedient and for the best interests of the corporation.

8.    Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws of the corporation shall provide.

Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the by-laws may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in the by-laws of the corporation.

Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or

receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and /or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing threefourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.

9.    The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

10.    A director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived any improper personal benefit

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, being each of the incorporators hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, do make this Certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is our act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set our hands this 7th day of December, 2001.

/s/ Daniel J. Hemmer    

Daniel J. Hemmer

CERTIFICATE OF MERGER

LKQ BEST AUTOMOTIVE CORP.
(a Texas Corporation)

INTO

LKQ BEST AUTOMOTIVE CORP.
(a Delaware Corporation)

The undersigned corporation

DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

FIRST: That the name and state of incorporation of each of the constituent corporations of the merger is as follows:

NAME    STATE OF INCORPORATION

LKQ Best Automotive Corp.     Texas

LKQ Best Automotive Corp.     Delaware

SECOND: That an Agreement of Merger between the parties to the merger has been approved, adopted, certified, executed and acknowledged by each of the constituent corporations in accordance with the requirements of section 252 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

THIRD: That the name of the surviving corporation of the merger is LKQ Best Automotive Corp., a Delaware corporation.

FOURTH: That the Certificate of Incorporation of LKQ Best Automotive Corp., a Delaware corporation which is surviving the merger, shall be the Certificate of Incorporation of the surviving corporation.

FIFTH: That the executed Agreement of Merger is on file at an office of the surviving corporation, the address of which is * LKQ Best Automotive Corp., 120 N. LaSalle St., Suite 3300, Chicago IL, 60602.

SIXTH: That a copy of the Agreement of Merger will be furnished by the surviving corporation, on request and without cost. to any stockholder of any constituent corporation.

SEVENTH: The authorized capital stock of each foreign corporation which is a party to the merger is as follows:

Corporation	Class	Number of Shares	Par value per share or statement that shares are without par value
LKQ Auto Parts Of North Texas, Inc.	Common	100	None

LKQ Best Automotive Corp.

By /s/ Daniel J. Hemmer    

Daniel J. Hemmer, Secretary

CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF LOCATION OF REGISTERED OFFICE
AND OF REGISTERED AGENT

It is hereby certified that:

1.    The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”) is LKQ Best Automotive Corp.

2.    The registered office of the Corporation within the State of Delaware is hereby changed to 9 East Loockerman Street, Suite 1B, City of Dover 19901, County of Kent.

3.    The registered agent of the Corporation within the State of Delaware is hereby changed to National Registered Agents, Inc., the business office of which is identical with the registered office of the corporation as hereby changed.

4.    The Corporation has authorized the changes hereinbefore set forth by resolution of its Board of Directors.

Signed on. 2/18/05

/s/ Walter P. Hanley    
Walter P. Hanley

STATE OF DELAWARE
CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT
AND/OR REGISTERED OFFICE

The corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:

1.    The name of the corporation is   LKQ Best Automotive Corp.    
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2.    The Registered Office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is changed to             3411 Silverside Road Rodney Building #104            (street), in the City of    Wilmington    ,

County of    New Castle    Zip Code    19810        . The name of the Registered Agent at such address upon whom process against this Corporation may be served is    Corporate Creations Network Inc.                .

3.    The foregoing change to the registered office/agent was adopted by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the corporation.

By: /s/ Jessica Morales    

Authorized Officer

Name: Jessica Morales, Special Secretary     

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